Lori Garzio, a Research Analyst for RUCOOL and Leslie Smith at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership joined forces to develop a new resource of curated OOI datasets. Check out the new collection of OOI Data Nuggets!

OOI Data Nuggets are exemplary datasets curated from data collected by the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). Datasets were selected based on their quality and alignment with a broader OOI Science Theme.  The nuggets explore various concepts common in upper-level high school and introductory college courses and are designed and packaged to be readily accessible to educators to integrate into their existing curriculum.

The creation of these Data Nuggets was part of the NSF-funded OOI Synthesis & Education project conducted by Rutgers University and led by the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.

The primary nugget tag team consists of Lori Garzio (Rutgers) and Leslie Smith (Your Ocean Consulting, LLC). Lori had the critical role of mining thousands of data streams for high quality datasets that highlight neat oceanographic phenomena. These awesome data sets were then handed over to Leslie who wove the data into a nugget, making graphs, adding background context, and linking the data to curriculum and ocean research.

Right now six nuggets are available:

• 2015 Axial Seamount Eruption
• Seasonal Phytoplankton Blooms at High Latitudes
• Flux of CO2 Between Ocean and Atmosphere
• Seasonal Mixing of the Irminger Sea Water Column
• Tidal Fluctuation of Diffuse Vent Fluid Flow
• Hypoxia Off the Oregon Coast

Be sure to check back often as more datasets will be added! We hope you find these resources as helpful as we do.